Skinning crocodiles is a skilled and unpleasant task as the skin needs to be cut away – it cannot be pulled away from the body like mammal skin.

Collection of the National Archives of Australia

Rainforest Aboriginal people, c1890.

Collection of the Cairns Historical Society, AIATSIS Negative 2111.02

Dive helmet, pre 1939

This diving helmet was used by deep sea divers in the early twentieth century.

Location

Australia
H3866
Queensland Museum
23 November 2010
Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010
Australia

Rainforest basket, 1914-16

Rainforest basket, 1914-16

Location

Australia
QE1477
Queensland Museum
Wrights Creek, north-east Queensland
23 November 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
480mm
450mm
300mm

Aboriginal shield tree, Ackeray Station, Augathella, 1979. Slide by Michael Keniger, Collection of the University of Queensland Library.

Copyright © Michael Keniger and the Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Thomas Wentworth Wills narrowly escaped death on 17 October 1861 when his father and 18 others were killed at Cullin-la-ringo Station on Garden Creek, near Springsure.

Sergeant James Whiteford and troopers, Cape York Peninsula, c1900. Collection of Jonathan Richards

Collection of Jonathan Richards

Carl Lumholtz, 'Chez Les Cannibales', Le Tour Du Monde, 1889, Volume 1, page 303. Collection of Jonathan Richards

Collection of Jonathan Richards

Cape York Peninsula Native Police patrol, c1900. Collection of Jonathan Richards

Collection of Jonathan Richards

Lower Herbert River Native Police camp, early 1870s. Collection of Jonathan Richards

Collection of Jonathan Richards

Syndicate content